Family: Mother Quotes

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"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

Shaquille O'Neal

"I'm not vicious, really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum"

Sid Vicious, Musician

"I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

Paris Hilton

"My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"I am no mother, and I won't be one"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Until 1943, I received no stipend. I was able to support myself, as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

Frederick Sanger

"There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect"

Roseanne Barr, Actress

"And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

Sanford I. Weill

"My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

Sanford I. Weill

"The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed"

Mike Krzyzewski, Coach

"Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to"

Mike Krzyzewski, Coach

"My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always"

Taylor Swift, Musician

Taylor Swift

"My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day"

Angela Carter, Novelist

Angela Carter

"My mom was my first love. She's the one who loved me when I didn't love myself"

Kevin Durant, Athlete

"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

Daphne Zuniga

"I feel cheated, never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children"

Holbrook Jackson, Writer

Holbrook Jackson

"I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart"

Anne Frank, Writer

"If I get the forty additional years, statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

Anna Quindlen

"My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

Anna Quindlen

"Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

Anna Quindlen

"My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

Sam Donaldson

"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done?"

Buck Owens, Musician

"I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

Sam Donaldson

"I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control"

Muriel Spark, Novelist

"And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

Sam Donaldson

"I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love!"

Raquel Welch, Actress

"I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you"

Nora Ephron, Author

"We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant"

Alveda King, Clergyman

Alveda King

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